{"id":752,"date":"2006-04-14T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/04\/14\/defending-science-2\/"},"modified":"2006-04-14T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T14:22:17","slug":"defending-science-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/14\/defending-science-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from New Mexico, where I selflessly rise early to share a couple of items on the fight-to-save-honest-science front:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At Daily Kos, DarkSyde has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2006\/4\/14\/64533\/6890\">an interview with Representative Brad Miller<\/a> (D-NC) about his efforts to ferret out instances of the overt politicization of science within the administration (as we <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/03\/20\/rep-miller-takes-on-science-abuse\/\">mentioned<\/a> before).  He wants to gather enough evidence to hold an investigation by the House Science Committee.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bablog\/2006\/04\/13\/defending-science\/\">Phil Plait<\/a> points us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defendscience.org\/\">Defend Science<\/a>, a group that is holding protests and circulating a petition decrying attacks on objective scientific thinking within the U.S.  I personally wasn&#8217;t that fond of the way the petition itself was written &#8212; a little too overheated, with a lot of capital letters &#8212; but it&#8217;s absolutely a worthy cause, and I am happy to go along.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from New Mexico, where I selflessly rise early to share a couple of items on the fight-to-save-honest-science front: At Daily Kos, DarkSyde has an interview with Representative Brad Miller (D-NC) about his efforts to ferret out instances of the overt politicization of science within the administration (as we mentioned before). He wants to gather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}